Company-State Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

Name: Company-State Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
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ISBN: 9780199930364

ISBN-10: 0199930368

ISBN-13: 9780199930364

Edition: 2011

Authors: Philip J. Stern

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Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of thenawabof Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation,The Company-Staterethinks this narrative and the nature of the early East India Company itself.In this book, Philip J. Stern reveals the history of a corporation concerned not simply with the bottom line but also with the science of colonial governance. Stern demonstrates how Company leadership wrestled with typical early modern problems of…

Book details

List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100



Introduction: "A State in the Disguise of a Merchant"



Foundations



"Planning & Peopling Your Colony": Building a Company-State



"A Sort of Republic for the Management of Trade": The Jurisdiction of a Company-State



"A Politie of Civill and Military Power": Diplomacy, War, and Expansion



"Politicall Science and Martiall Prudence": Political Thought and Political Economy



"The Most Sure and Profitable Sort of Merchandice": Protestantism and Piety



Transformations



"Great Warrs Leave Behind them Long Tales": Crisis and Response in Asia after 1688



Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae": Crisis and Response in Britain after 1688



"The Day of Small Things": Civic Governance in the New Century



"A Sword in One Hand & Money in the Other": Old Patterns, New Rivals


Conclusion "A Great and Famous Superstructure"


Abbreviations


Glossary


Notes


Index